Research Group Theology in a Postmodern Context - Projects of the Research Group

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Currently running projects of the Research Group

(the projects are ordered by starting date - the most recent projects are mentioned first)

• A future for the hermeneutical turn in theology? A historiacal- and systematic-theological investigation of the theology of Edward Schillebeeckx (1914-2009) and its contemporary reception.
• Minne. A Love'above reason and without manner'. An interdisciplinary encounter between Jan van Ruusbroec, Jean-Luc Marion and the post-metaphysical imperative.
• Towards a Christian Open Narrative of Love: An exploration of the Theological Implications of its Openness
• Gilles Deleuze and Theology: A New Philosophical Mediation for a Western Liberation Theology?
• In Search of Criteria for an African Christianity from the Nigerian Context: A Critical-Constructive Inquiry into the Theology of Joseph Ratzinger
• Towards a Christian Open Narrative of Love: An exploration of the Theological Implications of its Openness
• The Normativity of History: Theological Truth and Tradition in the Tension between Church History and Systematic Theology
• Truth as Event: Hermeneutical Theology in Dialogue with Alain Badiou
• Religious Categories in between Philosophy and Theology: A Fundamental-Theological Investigation into the 'Messianic' in Benjamin, Derrida and Agamben'
• Hindu-Christian Hermeneutical Theology? A Critical Examination of the Implications of David Tracy's Methodological Studies for Indian Theological Hermeneutics
• Between Incarnation and Transcendence: Francis Schüssler Fiorenza's Reconstructive Hermeneutics as a Rationality and Methodology for a Critcal Approach to Truth and Meaning within the Particularity of Religious Traditions
• The Figurae of Revelation: A Study of the Inter-Media Relations in the Theology of Joachim of Fiore
• Poetics of Christian Action: Paul Ricoeur’s Hermeneutics of Human Action as the Basis for a Practical-Hermeneutical Theology
• Paradigm Shifts in Theology? A Fundamental Theological Inquiry
• Does the Particularity of Religious Traditions Imply the Particularity of Religious Truth Claims? A Philosophical-Theological Investigation into the Poetic Character of Religious Truth
• Ontwikkeling van een kritische witte feministische theologie als transformatieve bijdrage aan het multiculturele debat

Finished projects

• The particularity of theological truth claims. Philosophical-theological investigation into a radical hermeneutical epistemology of religious truth in a context of religious pluralism
• The Impact of Feminist Theory on Theology and Theological Language
• Meaning and identity on the boundary of theology and literature: full text (in Dutch; no English summary available)
• Saint Paul as a political theologian? A fundamental-theological study at the crossroads of philosophy and Biblical studies
• Without a God's eye point of view: Hilary Putnam's contribution to a fundamental-theological reflection on the narrative foundation of theological ethics (in Dutch; no English summary available)
• Evolution, humanity and religion: a theological investigation of the content and reach of evolutionary explanations of religion
• Metaphysics and Christian Truth
• Beyond interruption: room for the 'last god'? Doing theology after Heidegger's ontological difference: full text (in Dutch; no English summary available)
  
• Postmodern Neo-augustinianism: old wine in new wineskins? Historical and systematical theological investigation into the introduction of neo-augustinian frameworks in contemporary theological epistemologies, i.c. 'Radical Orthodoxy': summary (in English), full text (in Dutch)
• Orthodoxy: process & product. Church-historical and systematical-theological study of the determination of truth in Church and theology: website of the project
• God on the screen again? 'Baroquisation' as a cultural-critical and contextual-theological category in the wake of Hans Urs von Balthasar and Theodor W. Adorno
• Christianity without Christianity? Historical-contextual study of the renewed interest of contemporary philosophers in Christianity: summary (in English), full text (in Dutch)
• A theology of interruption. Critical investigation into the status of religious experience in the legitimisation structure of contemporary theological thinking patterns: summary (in English), summary (in Dutch)
• Critical investigation into the status of religious experience in contemporary fundamental theology. Towards a reconceptualisation of 'experience of God' as 'interruption': summary (in English), summary (in Dutch)
• Popular music, religious experience and contextual-theological methodology. A cultural-philosophical and -theological study of the religious impact of rock music: summary (in English), full text no longer available
• Beyond the subject? Subjectivity and transcendence at the intersection of phenomenology and theology: summary (in English), full text no longer available 
• Aesthetics, eroticism and narrativity. A critical approach to the theological aesthetics of Hans Urs von Balthasar in the light of the current context of aestheticization
• The cognitive range of religious metaphors. Theological epistemology in dialogue with cognitive semantics
• Postmodern sacramento-theology
• Christian tradition and tradition-development in a postmodern context. Research into a postmodern theological understanding of tradition